Former Atlanta mayor and civil rights leader Andrew Young has been discharged after being hospitalized Friday in what his family described as a precaution. The specific reason for the hospital stay was not detailed, but a family statement said Sunday that ...

ATLANTA — Rev. Eric Terrell, a lifelong civil rights activist and pillar of the ... message of justice took on a new undertone: keep the movement going. Terrell spent his whole life creating ...

ATLANTA — On Friday, friends and family of the youngest of the 13 original Freedom Riders gathered at the historic Ebenezer Baptist Church to honor his life and work. Charles Person died earlier this month at the age of 82 at his home in Fayette County.

According to a memo, DOJ attorneys cannot file new complaints, briefs or certain court papers “until further notice.”

As Ambassador Andrew Young said of the passing of Congressman John Lewis “there is going to be a great camp meeting in the sky,” as the civil rights leader joined his peers and other racial and social justice advocates who preceeded him in death.

some of his proudest moments came with the Civil Rights Movement. “He participated in a number of civil rights marches in Atlanta and Thomasville, as well as surrounding areas,” Mincey said.

When he and other Black protesters were arrested at a whites-only lunch counter in 1961, they tried a new strategy — ‘Jail No Bail’ — and energized a movement.

Charles Person, the youngest original member of the Freedom Riders, passed away at 82 in Fayetteville. At 18, Person joined the Freedom Riders, facing violence to challenge racial segregation in the Deep South. In 2021, Person co-founded the Freedom Riders Training Academy to promote nonviolent protest and constitutional rights.

More than 50 years after he died at age 39 from an assassin’s bullet, the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. endures as one of the most influential and recognizable figures in American history. His rise from the pulpit of the Ebenezer Baptist Church in Atlanta to his groundbreaking work as a founder and leader

MLK’s legacy lives on in Atlanta where the city hosted “A day on” of services and parades to honor MLK including projects to feed the homeless.

Remembrances are happening January 31 and February 1, marking the 65th anniversary of the Greensboro sit-ins. The building where the civil rights protest began, Woolworth's, is now a National Historic Landmark. The original lunch counter is still preserved inside the museum.

"Generations after us will be able to say that's where history was made," said Guilford County Commissioners Chair Melvin "Skip" Alston, who along with Earl Jones, then a Greensboro city